Configuring an Elasticsearch database on a separate machine

Note

Elasticsearch is only supported up to version 6.8, which is no longer supported by Elastic. We therefore recommend using Storage as a Service instead, or if you do want to continue using self-hosted storage, using OpenSearch.

To configure a separate Elasticsearch instance (version 6.8), you may need to adapt the Elasticsearch.yml as well as several other files before you start the Elasticsearch service. For more information about these settings, see Configuring Elasticsearch.

The most important of these settings can be found on the page Important Elasticsearch configuration.

Important

The JVM Heap Space must be set to a value larger than the default 1 GB on production systems. To configure this, see Setting the heap size.